Alternate Presidential Election maps

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Alot like the other lists, except in this one you make alternate election maps:
Here are a few of mine:

1840:

Daniel Webster (MA)/John Tyler (VA) (Whig) 175 evs 51.34% pv
Richard M. Johnson (KY)/James K. Polk (TN) (Democratic) 119 evs 46.68% pv
James G. Birney (NY)/Thomas Earle (PA) (Liberty) 1.98%

1844:

Martin Van Buren (NY)/John Fairfield (ME) (Democratic) 207 evs 53.86% pv
Daniel Webster (MA)/John Tyler (VA) (Whig) 68 evs 46.14% pv

Martin Van Buren's Free Soil stances helps him steal alot of the anti-slavery vote away from the Whig party, who were looked upon as unfavorable after the extremist term of Webster.

1848:

Martin Van Buren (NY)/John Fairfield (ME) (Democratic) 274 evs 59.46% pv
Winfield Scott (NJ)/Millard Fillmore (NY) (Whig) 16 evs 40.54% pv

In the biggest electoral victory since James Monroe in 1820, Van Buren sweeps every state except Kentucky and Rhode Island.

1852:

Stephen Douglas (IL)/Jefferson Davis (MS) 157 evs 47.25% pv
Sam Houston (TX)/Millard Fillmore (NY) (Whig) 139 evs 46.55% pv
John Parker Hale (NH)/George Washington Julian (IN) (Free Soil) 6.2% pv

The Whigs' last hurrah. The selection of Texas Senator Sam Houston helps them capture quite a few independent voters and abolitionists disillusioned by the Democratic choice of the pro slavery Douglas/Davis ticket.

1856:

John C. Fremont (CA)/Abraham Lincoln (IL) (Republican) 176 evs 36.08% pv
Stephen Douglas (IL)/Jefferson Davis (MS) (Democratic) 60 evs 33.68% pv
Millard Fillmore (NY)/Andrew Donelson (TN) (Know Nothing) 60 evs 30.24% pv

Whig Party dissolves due to infighting. Anti-slavery dissidents from the Whig Party and the Democratic Party band together and form the Republican Party who has it as one of it's goals "the complete and total abolition of slavery" along with a pro business platform.
The Know Nothing Party is full of former Whigs who are advocates of a protectionist economic policy, but have no particular stance on Immigration. John C. Fremont wins the votes of the North and thus the election while Fillmore and Douglas split the South.

1860:

John C. Fremont (CA)/Abraham Lincoln (IL) (Republican) 168 evs 52.85% pv
Andrew Johnson (TN)/Horatio Seymour (NY) (Democratic) 74 evs 47.15% pv

After the Civil War begins in late 1859, the American people once again put their trust behind John Fremont to keep the Union safe.

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1864:

Abraham Lincoln (IL)/Ulysses S. Grant (OH) (Republican) 118 evs 50.35% pv
Thomas H. Seymour (CT)/George B. McClelland (NJ) (Democratic) 115 evs 49.65% pv
A very surprisingly strong showing from the Democratic ticket of Congressman Thomas H. Seymour and Union General George B. McClelland due to the unpopularity of Abraham Lincoln (who suspended habeus corpus after the unexpected death of President John Fremont who died from a stomach virus).

1868:

Ulysses S. Grant (OH)/Schuyler Colfax (IN) (Republican) 150 evs 50.78% pv
Horatio Seymour (NY)/Thomas Ewing Jr. (OH) (Democratic) 144 evs 49.22% pv

Another very close election, due to the unpopularity of Reconstruction among the general populace.

1872:

Benjamin G. Brown (MO)/Andrew G. Curtin (PA) (Liberal Republican) 220 evs 53.12% pv
Schuyler Colfax (IN)/John F. Lewis (VA) (Republican) 146 evs 46.58%

The unpopular Radical Republicans are finally kicked out of the White House as the Liberal Republicans take over the White House. Months after the election the different wings of the Republican Party would disband and it would become one once more.

1876:

Benjamin G. Brown (MO)/Andrew G. Curtin (PA) (Republican) 215 evs 51.86% pv
Samuel J. Tilden (NY)/Thomas A. Hendricks (IN) (Democratic) 154 evs 46.98% pv
James B. Weaver (IA)/Benjamin G. Chambers (TX) (Greenback) 1.16% pv

Popularity and lack of differences between the liberal Republican Benjamin G. Brown and the Bourbon Democrat Samuel J. Tilden results in a comfortable victory for Brown/Curtin.

1880:

Andrew G. Curtin (PA)/Blanche K. Bruce (MS) (Republican) 187 evs 47.79%pv
Winfield S. Hancock (PA)/Thomas A. Hendricks (IN) (Democratic) 182 evs 47.69%pv
James B. Weaver (IA)/Benjamin G. Chambers (TX) (Greenback) 4.52%pv

Curtin's choice of the US Senator Bruce is very controversial and arguably made the race alot closer than most people anticipated. Little did people know that in a few months, Bruce would be their very first African American president.

1884:

Grover Cleveland (NY)/Thomas A. Hendricks (IN) (Democratic) 346 evs 56.78% pv
James G. Blaine (ME)/George F. Edmunds (VT) (Republican) 55 evs 39.7% pv
John St. Johns (KS)/William Daniel (MD) (Prohibition) 1.98% pv
Benjamin Butler (MA)/Absalom West (MS) (Greenback) 1.54% pv

Thanks to a recession and public disapproval of President Bruce the Bourbon Democrat Grover Cleveland wins a landslide election to the presidency.

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1888:

Grover Cleveland (NY)/Adlai Stevenson I (IL) (Democratic) 361 evs 60.34% pv
William B. Allison (IN)/Russel A. Alger (MI) (Republican) 40 evs 36.75% pv
Clinton B. Fisk (NJ)/John A. Brooks (MO) (Prohibition) 1.7% pv
Alson J. Streeter (IL)/Charles E. Cunningham (AR) (Union Labor) 1.21% pv

After 4 years of presiding over a booming economy, Grover Cleveland is elected in the biggest electoral landslide since Martin Van Buren in 1848.

1892:

Adlai E. Stevenson I (IL)/Arthur Gorman (MD) (Democratic) 328 evs 43.5% pv
James G. Blaine (ME)/William McKinley (OH) (Republican) 78 evs 37.8% pv
James B. Weaver (IA)/James G. Field (VA) (Populist) 38 evs 18.7% pv

Stevenson wins a comfortable victory thanks to a strong Populist Party ticket that steals alot of Republican votes and the Cleveland legacy.

1896:

William J. Bryan (NE)/Arthur Sewall (ME) (Democratic) 229 evs 36.95% pv
William McKinley (OH)/Garret Hobart (NJ) (Republican) 117 evs 36.75% pv
John G. Carlisle (KY)/William L. Wilson (VA) (National Democrat) 101 evs 23.2% pv
Joshua Levering (MD)/Hale Johnson (IL) (Prohibition) 0.8% pv
Charles Horatio Matchett (NY)/Matthew Maguire (NJ) (Socialist Labor) 2.3%

One of the closest elections ever in terms of popular vote, different story electoral vote wise. Bryan capitalizes on the growing populist movement and helps win the third Democratic presidency in a row. However, lots of people go to the National Democratic Party after Bryan abandones the traditional Democratic laissez faire stance.

1900:

William McKinley (OH)/Thomas B. Reed (ME) (Republican) 325 evs 53.43% pv
William J. Bryan (NE)/Thomas E. Watson (GA) (Democratic) 122 evs 43.57% pv
Eugene Victor Debbs (IN)/Job Harriman (CA) (Social-Democratic) 1.5% pv
Wharton Barker (PA)/Ignatius L. Donnelly (MN) (Populist) 0.9% pv
John G. Woolley (IL)/Henry B. Metcalf (OH) (Prohibition) 0.7% pv

The failure of the Bryan administration brings the White House back into Republican control for the first time since 1884.

1904:

William H. Taft (OH)/Charles W. Fairbanks (IN) (Republican) 356 evs 57.43% pv
William Randolph Hearst (NY)/Henry Davis (WV) (Democratic) 120 evs 35.87%
Eugene V. Debbs (IN)/Benjamin Hanford (NY) (Socialist) 4.5% pv
Silas Comfort Swallow (PA)/George W. Carroll (TX) (Prohibition) 1.4% pv
Thomas E. Watson (GA)/Thomas E. Tibbles (NE) (Populist) 0.8 pv

The line holds study for the Republicans in 1904 as they gain three more states to their electoral count.

1908:

William H. Taft (OH)/James S. Sherman (NY) (Republican) 356 evs 52.32% pv
John A. Johnson (MN)/John W. Kern (IN) (Democratic) 127 evs 41.88% pv
Eugene V. Debs (IN)/Benjamin Hanford (NY) (Socialist) 3.2% pv
Eugene W. Chafin (IL)/Aaron S. Watkins (OH) (Prohibition) 1.5% pv
Thomas L. Hisgen (MA)/John Temple Graves (GA) (Independence) 1.1% pv

Thanks to third party overkill and the success of the Taft administration, the GOP sees it's third straight electoral victory.

1912:

Theodore Roosevelt (NY)/Hiram Johnson (CA) (Progressive) 270 evs 32.32% pv
Woodrow Wilson (NJ)/Oscar W. Underwood (AL) (Democratic) 212 evs 31.18% pv
Charles W. Fairbanks (IN)/Nicolas M. Butler (NY) (Republican) 49 evs 27.2% pv
Eugene V. Debbs (IN)/Emil Seidel (WI) (Socialist) 7.2% pv
Eugene W. Chafin (IL)/Aaron S. Watkins (OH) (Prohibition) 2.1% pv

Teddy Roosevelt, on the new Progressive Party ticket, manages to beat the two party system with both a plurality of the popular as well as the electoral vote. His win would usher in the Era of the Three Party system.

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I've just mastered the code input for the maps. Believe me, the next few entries (with the Progressive Party a major party, thus the Three Party System) will be pretty crazy.

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1916:

Theodore Roosevelt (NY)/Hiram Johnson (CA) (Progressive) 271 evs 32.56% pv
Charles Evans Hughes (NY)/Henry Ford (MI) (Republican) 146 evs 32.12% pv
Thomas R. Marshall (IN)/Oscar W. Underwood (AL) (Democratic) 114 evs 32.32% pv
Allan Louis Benson (NY)/George R. Kirkpatrick (NJ) (Socialist) 2.1% pv
James Franklin Hanly (IN)/Ira Landrith (TN) (Prohibition) 0.9% pv

Although he won a comfortable electoral re-election, Roosevelt and his two closest opponents all scored with a .44% margin, one of the closest popular vote margins since the emergence of the Three Party system.

1920:

Warren G. Harding (OH)/Calvin Coolidge (MA) (Republican) 413 evs 41.44% pv
James M. Cox (OH)/Al Smith (NY) (Democratic) 70 evs 29.1% pv
Hiram Johnson (CA)/Burton K. Wheeler (MT) (Progressive) 48 evs 24.56% pv
Eugene V. Debbs (IN)/Seymour Stedman (IL) (Socialist) 2.7% pv
Parely Parker Christensen (IL)/Maximillian Sebastian Hayes (OH) (Farmer-Labor) 1.3% pv
Aaron S. Watkins (IN)/David L. Covin (NY) (Prohibition) 0.6% pv
James E. Ferguson (TX)/William J. Hough (NY) (American) 0.2% pv
William W. Cox (MO)/August Gilhaus (NY) (Socialist Labor) 0.1% pv

Warren G. Harding gets elected on a mandate after the economic downturn that takes place during the last two years under Progressive dominance. Democrats have entered the "regional party" status at the moment.

1924:

Calvin Coolidge (MA)/Frank O. Lowden (IA) (Republican) 445 evs 56.21% pv
Oscar W. Underwood (AL)/Charles W. Bryan (NE) (Democratic) 64 evs 26.45% pv
Robert M. LaFollette Sr. (WI)/Franklin Delano Roosevelt (NY) (Progressive) 22 evs 17.14% pv
Other: .2% pv

Calvin Coolidge is elected to his first full term (he assumed the presidency after Warren Harding died from an illness in 1923) with one of the largest electoral wins (since the implementation of the Three Party System), owed mostly to the economic prosperity that came under Republican leadership.

1928:

Herbert Hoover (KS)/Charles Curtis (KS) (Republican) 408 evs 53.21% pv
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (NY)/Nellie T. Ross (WY) (Progressive) 62 evs 25.59% pv
Al Smith (NY)/Alben W. Barkley (KY) (Democratic) 61 evs 19.7% pv
Norman Thomas (NY)/James H. Maurer (PA) (Socialist)1.0% pv
William Z. Foster (IL)/Benjamin Gitlow (NY) (Communist) 0.3% pv

Herbert Hoover wins a comfortable victory on the curtails of Calvin Coolidge. The fortunes of the Democratic and Progressives flip flop on this election, as the charismatic Franklin Roosevelt (and VP choice Nellie Ross, first female running for VP from Wyoming) helps them pick up victories in traditionally Republican states like Wyoming and Maryland.

1932:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (NY)/Robert M. LaFollette Jr. (WI) (Progressive) 403 evs 53.24% pv
John Nance Garner (TX)/Albert Ritchie (MD) (Democratic) 73 evs 24.89% pv
Herbert Hoover (IA)/Charlie Curtis (KS) (Republican) 55 evs 18.97%
Norman Thomas (NY)/James H. Maurer (PA) (Socialist) 2.4% pv
William Z. Foster (IL)/James W. Ford (AL) (Communist) 0.4% pv
William P. Upshaw (GA)/Frank S. Regan (IL) (Prohibition) 0.1% pv
William Hope Harvey (AR)/Frank Hemenway (WA) (Liberty)

The Great Depression occurs and helps give the Progressive Franklin Delano Roosevelt the party's first Mandate Landslide election. If the Progressives can't get the nation behind it's social policies, it looks like it can get it behind it's economic policies. Teddy Roosevelt's true revenge on the two party system had just begun.

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1936:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (NY)/Robert M. LaFollette Jr. (WI) (Progressive) 507 evs 59.97% pv
Newton D. Baker (OH)/Miriam Ferguson (TX) (Democratic) 17 evs 23.82% pv
Alf Landon (KS)/Stephen A. Day (OH) (Republican) 7evs 13.91% pv
William Lemke (ND)/Thomas C. O'Brien (MA) (Union) 1.8%
Norman Thomas (NY)/George A. Nelson (WI) (Socialist) 0.4%
Earl Browder (KS)/James W. Ford (NY) (Communist) 0.1% pv

Conveying a message of hope and optimism, FDR is able to score a huge electoral landslide over his opponents not seen since Grover Cleveland.

1940:

Robert M. LaFollette Jr. (WI)/Henry Wallace (IA) (Progressive) 365 evs 41.21% pv
Wendell Wilkie (NY)/Arthur Vandenberg (MI) (Republican) 94 evs 30.34% pv
Millard Tydings (MD)/Louis A. Johnson (VA) (Democratic) 72 evs 28.15% pv
Norman Thomas (NY)/Maynard C. Krueger (IL) (Socialist) 0.3% pv

LaFollette's electoral and popular vote percentages, while impressive, showed the trend toward the GOP that America was drifting back toward. The South was returning to it's Democratic roots. Soon, the Progressive Supermajority would weaken and disappear. However, the Progressive force would always remain.

1944:

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.(MA)/Alben W. Barkley (KY) (Democratic) 34.09% pv 216 evs
Thomas E. Dewey (NY)/Harold Stassen (MN) (Republican) 34.1% pv 212 evs
Henry Wallace (IA)/Glen H. Taylor (ID) (Progressive) 31.21% pv 103 evs
Norman Thomas (NY)/Darlington Hoopes (PA) (Socialist) 0.4% pv
Claude Watson (CA)/Andrew N. Johnson (KY) (Prohibition) 0.2% pv

The noninterventionist Progressive foreign policy outrages many Americans hearing about the atrocities of the German army, as well as an economic recession in 1944. Joseph P. Kennedy and Thomas E. Dewey capitalize on Robert M. LaFollette's dovish foreign policy and staunch government intervention in the economy. No electoral majority, election goes to the House (which is under Democratic dominance (34%)) and Senate (which is under Republican dominance (34%)). Progressives, seeing that any chance of getting either Wallace or Taylor is nil, either vote for Taylor or Wallace or sell their vote to the "lesser of evils". The end result is:

Senate:
The US Senate vote would be a lot easier than the House vote, due to the fact that alot of Progressives found the GOP vice president Harold Stassen to be a "progressive sympathesizing" Republican. The end result would be 60 Stassen, 31 Barkley, 7 Wallace.
Harold W. Stassen is elected as Vice President.

House:

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (MA) 26 states
Thomas E. Dewey (NY) 15 states
Henry Wallace (IA) 7 states

Joseph P. Kennedy by a slim majority of the House vote is elected US President. This would be the first administration since 1797 that would have a president and a vice president from separate parties. President Joseph P. Kennedy and Vice President Harold Stassen would get along famously, proving that bipartisanship is possible in the Executive Branch.

1948:

Thomas E. Dewey (NY)/Earl Warren (CA) (Republican) 283 evs 33.8% pv
Joseph P. Kennedy (MA)/Estes Kefauver (TN) (Democratic) 112 evs 28.2% pv
Glen H. Taylor (ID)/James Roosevelt (CA) (Progressive) 86 evs 29.8% pv
Strom Thurmond (SC)/Herman Talmadge (GA) (Dixiecrat) 50 evs 7.8% pv
Norman Thomas (NY)/Tucker P. Smith (MI) (Socialist) 0.3% pv
Claude Watson (CA)/Dale Learn (PA) (Prohibition) 0.1% pv

After a term of Joseph P. Kennedy's staunch interventionism as well as fracturing within the Democratic Party due to the adoption of Civil Rights into the party platform helps Thomas E. Dewey win a decent electoral victory.

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1952:

Thomas E. Dewey (NY)/Earl Warren (CA) (Republican) 403 evs 42.52% pv
Richard Russell Jr. (GA)/John Sparkman (AL) (Democratic) 65 evs 26.62% pv
Adlai E. Stevenson II (IL)/Robert S. Kerr (OK) (Progressive) 63 evs 30.86% pv
There are some regional third parties running, but the third party vote is so insignificant it barely registers. Due to general satisfaction with the Dewey administration, the GOP wins a landslide.

1956:

Lyndon B. Johnson (TX)/Ronald Reagan (CA) (Democratic) 280 evs 36.23% pv
Adlai E Stevenson II (IL)/Nelson Rockefeller (NY) (Progressive) 156 evs 33.43% pv
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (MA)/Richard M. Nixon (CA) (Republican) 95 evs 30.34% pv
Third party vote is almost nil. Democrats win campaigning on the economy (unemployment growing, plus selling the Democratic position as the rational position compared to the laissez faire philosophy of the Republican Party and the staunch government interventionalist Progressive Party) and the need for a big military budget (GOP and Progressive Parties are both historically anti big military budget). The presence of New York Progressive Senator Nelson Rockefeller helps the Progressive Party win New York and Illinois for the first time since 1940.

1960:

Nelson Rockefeller (NY)/Hiram Fong (HI) (Progressive) 299 evs 33.89% pv
Lyndon B. Johnson (TX)/Ronald Reagan (CA) (Democratic) 148 evs 33.45% pv
William Scranton (PA)/Margaret Chase Smith (ME) (Republican) 91 evs 32.66% pv
Although the Progressive ticket of Nelson Rockefeller and Hiram Fong won a decisive electoral victory over the Democratic and Republican tickets, the popular vote was very close between all three tickets. The popularity of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the previous administrations failure to end the job slump started during the Dewey administration, helped the Progressives win their first presidential election in 20 years.

1964:

Richard M. Nixon (CA)/John Chafee (RI) (Republican) 456 evs 49.72% pv
Barry Goldwater (AZ)/John G. Tower (TX) (Democratic) 42 evs 26.21% pv
Michael Mansfield (MT)/William Proxmire (WI) (Progressive) 40 evs 24.07% pv
Rockefeller become involved in an affair with a woman named Happy and it destroys his marriage, as well as any chance of him winning re-election. Revelations about vice president Hiram Fong's past as a transexual hooker come to light also, dooming any chance he has of succeeding Rockefeller. Instead the quite leftist ticket of Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana and fellow Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin win the nod. The conservative faction wins over the moderate faction in the Democratic party. The end result: Two extremist tickets against the quite moderate Republican ticket of former Senator Richard M. Nixon of California and Governor John Chafee of Rhode Island.

1968:

Eugene McCarthy (MN)/George McGovern (SD) (Progressive) 229 evs 35.79% pv
Ronald Reagan (CA)/Robert F. Kennedy (MA) (Democratic) 227 evs 36% pv
Richard M. Nixon (NY)/John Chafee (RI) (Republican) 82 evs 28.21% pv
None of the candidates get an electoral majority. It is revealed that Nixon ordered political opponents to be wiretapped and this annhilates the GOP's chances at election. The election goes to the House and Senate 24 years after the last time this situation occured. It would all depend on the makeup of Congress after the election:

Senate:
The Senate ends up with a Republican minority (about 31 seats), a Democratic medium (33 seats), and a Progressive majority (36 seats). Since most of the nation is already pissed at Nixon, enough Republicans go over to the McGovern camp to get a majority rule. George McGovern, via the Senate (53-42-5), is now Vice President elect of the United States.

House:
The House ends up having a Republican minority, a Progressive medium, and a Democratic majority. Like the Senate, it all depends on who the GOP representatives decide who is the lesser evil between Ronald Reagan and Eugene McCarthy. The end result is shocking:

Ronald Reagan 27 states
Eugene McCarthy 14 states
Richard Nixon 9 states
With a very slim majority, Ronald Reagan is elected by the House as the next President of the United States of America. This would mean that the executive branch would have the Democrat Ronald Reagan, who is the face of the new conservative movement, as president and his vice president would be Progressive George McGovern, who is nicknamed "Mr. Progressive". The next four years would be VERY interesting. People are surprised at how resistant some of the GOP was to voting for either Reagan or McCarthy, voting Nixon (alot of the congressmen who voted so later said they personally didn't like Nixon, but couldn't stomach voting for either Reagan or McCarthy) instead of voting for either of the lesser of two evils.

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Passionating alternate history. I love three-party system though a reform of electoral system appears necessary.

Yes. The electoral system would be reformed in 1970. The reforms will be covered in my next update which will be after lunch (11:40ish-12:40ish). I plan on writing a quick timeline covering the elections covered in this thread (mine of course), maybe even a whole history (like I have been doing in my main timeline).

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The next installments of my presidential election maps shall be in my own thread, to avoid mass confusion and to make inserts like the Electoral College Reformation not seem weird.